Capitalism is *all about*, at its core, building decentralized systems which on inspection turn out to be centrally controlled, or controlled via a "one dollar one vote" democracy of the five or six richest people in the system (in other words informal centralization, without the committee that makes the decisions having a name). The decentralized internet systems that capitalism builds reflect this. There's lots of examples of it. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bluesky.

Something I considered for my "listening to" thread but rejected… Ceci intéressera particulièrement les francophones. Here is a short video where a musician who built a table into a composite noise instrument made of contact mics, solenoids, crackleboxes, and guitar pedals does a series of short performances and explains his system in French. I'm skipping it for the thread because it's many sketches rather than one "song". But if you speak French I bet this is great:

A thing that super frustrates me is on Mastodon if you run your own server you can excuse yourself from the character limit, but I don't run my own Mastodon server, but I *do* run my own Bluesky server, but Bluesky is designed so even if you run your own server you're locked into Bluesky's character limit. Anyway

Me when I attempt an FPGA project

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Watching "once upon a witch's death" on Crunchyroll Main character: "Genki da [followed by what sounds like] ko res ne". Even I know enough Japanese to know "Genki da, ne?" Means "she's so lively, right?" Subtitles: "She's so full of beans!" …What?